Bag-tie.



A. M. BATES.

BAG TIE.

y APPucATloN FILED 1111111.14, 1912.

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ADELMER IVI. BATES, F CHICAGO, ILLINCIS, ASSIGNOR TO BATES VALVE BAGCOMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF WEST VIRGINIA.

BAG-TIE.

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Specification of Letters'4 Patent.

Patented Dee. II., I9I5.

T0 all lwhom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, ADELMER M. BATES, a citizen of the United States,residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State a of Illinois, haveinvented a certain new and useful Improvement in Bag-Ties, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to a tie, particularly such as is applicable to theclosure of pack- IC ages and especially iexible bags.

Its object is to provide a tie which shall contain a minimum length ofWire, shall be easily untied or untwisted, shall have no dangerousprojecting end portions, shall 115 have convenient means for theattachment of a tag, and shall Vhave other advantages such as arehereinafter pointed out. l

One illustration of my invention is set forth in the accompanyingdrawings, wherenl Figure 1 is a plan view of a bag with my tie inposition for twisting; Fig. 2 is a side elevation of a bag with' my tieattached; 3 is a similar side elevation with the tag attached; Fig. 4 isthe side elevation of a bag to which my tie has been attached and fromwhich it has been untied.

Like parts are indicated by the same letters in all the figures.

A is a bag and B the crimped end thereof, C is the bent portion of thetie, D the free fiexible end preferably having the enlargement E, F is aclosed loop forming the other end6 of the tie and G is the twist. Itwill be understood, of course, that these illustrations are to be takenas more or less diagrammatic and that the size, proportion andarrangement of the several parts can be greatly varied without departingfro-m the I@ spirit'of the invention. The tie is made -in the process`of tying the package. I shall describe itin connection with the tie ofla bag either empty or filled, but it will be un- W derstood thatthedescription will apply w equally to other devices or packages.

The use and operation of my invention are as follows: A wire, preferablyfrom a .spool is preferably upset or provided with a head at its outerend. It is then carried around the crimped portion of the bag and itstwo parts brought together so as to tightly compress such crimpedportion. If

.a loop isrdesired, the wireis now severed and bent over so as to formsuch loop. The A inner end `of the looper portion should beapproximately at the point where the lower l end of the twist of... thecompleted tie is found. This bending over of the wire to form the loopmakes a relatively rigid or stout unyielding portion. The two ends, onethus looped and the other free and single and therefore relativelyyielding and relatively long, are brought closely together about thebag, preferably without being overlapped, though they may overlap ifthat is desired.' The are then twisted together until as illustratedtheftwo projecting ends consist onel of a` relatively rigid double baseportion "and a loop, the other of a long single relativelyxflexibleportion.

When now it becomes necessary to untie the bag the long end can begrasped between the thumb and finger and rotated about the short stubbyrigid end with a crank-like motion rapidly and easily. There is'noprojecting end to injure the operator or the fabric of the packagebecause one endis looped and the other {is provided with a head. Whenthe tag is to be applied, the long flexible end can be run through theeyelet and then carried back therethrough and'attached to the loop asindicated. If no tag is to be applied and no loop is desired,

then after the wire has been brought about.

the crimped end of the bag either before or after the twisting, the wiremay be severed at a point where such severed end will be at the top ofthe "twisted portion of the completed tie. This makes such severed end ashort end, as compared with the long flexible end, with a relativelyrigid projecting part so that the long end may be as before graspedbetween the thumb and finger and by'a crank-like motion untwisted fromthe short stubby rigid end. In either case the untwisting is much easierthan whereboth ends are simultaneously manipulated to affect theuntwisting. In the latter case, there is, of course, no projecting endto injure the operator or the fabric.

I claim: v

1. A bag tie comprising a section adapted to inclose the crimped portionof a bag, a`

reinforced short section extending beyond said inclosing section at oneend and a long,

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2. A bag tie comprising asection adapted Il@ to inclose the crimpedAportion of a bag, a reinforced short section extending beyond saidinclosing section at one end and terininating in loop, and a long,flexible section extending beyond the inclosing section at the otherend, the iexible section twisted around the reinforced section tocomplete the tiel on the bag.

3. A bag tie comprising a section adapted to inc lose the crimpedportion of a bag, a' reinforced short section extending beyond saidinclosing section at one end and formed by twisting one portion of thetie on another, and a long,` 4flexible section extending beyond theinclosing section at the other 16 end, the exible section twisted aroundthe reinforced section to complete the tie on the ba i igned at Chicago,Illinois, this 2nd day of `Merch, 1912. p ADELMER M. BATES.

Witnesses:

MINNIE M. LINDENAN, MINNm I. SUNDFAR.

